The head of the program, and the man in charge of making the Latin Americans feel welcome, was Arnold Harberger, a safari-suit-wearing economist who spoke fluent Spanish, had married a Chilean and described himself as “a seriously dedicated missionary.”23 When the Chilean students started arriving, Harberger created a special “Chile workshop” where University of Chicago professors presented their highly ideological diagnosis of what was wrong with the South American country—and offered their scientific prescriptions on how to fix it. “Suddenly, Chile and its economy
